A new report says the parents of the bride are still paying more than the parents of the groom when it comes to the total wedding cost. Our guest says that tradition may go back decades, but it's still alive today, along with new ways of paying for a wedding...

The state assembly passed a bill that would expel student protesters who disrupt campus events at UW System schools. We'll talk to WPR's state capitol reporter about that and other pieces of legislation that the assembly took up.

Dane County Circuit Judge Nicholas McNamara ordered Richard Beranek released on a signature bond Thursday. Beranek was serving a 243-year prison sentence after being convicted in 1990 of raping a rural Stoughton woman in her home in 1987.

The state of Wisconsin has made an effort to improve the condition of many of the nearly 4,000 inland dams, some which are as old as the 1840s. But the federal government has been operating a lock and dam system on the upper Mississippi River that was built in the 1930s and should have been upgraded in the '80s.

Students who disrupt campus events at University of Wisconsin System schools could be expelled under a bill approved Wednesday by the state Assembly. The bill was one of several that passed the state Assembly on Wednesday. Other's include limiting who can request a presidential recount and creating an open hunting...

Not everyone hides in their homes during severe weather. Dark clouds, heavy winds and loud thunder entice people like Dan Smeiska, a storm chaser and photographer from the Marinette County's village of Crivitz.